Who thinks they have all the answers without knowing the question or the facts?
Posted: July 21, 2008 Filed under: No Obama | Tags: No Obama, Obama lies, obama media hype 8 CommentsWouldn’t it be just wonderful to have all the answers without really knowing the questions or the facts before hand? It appears the we now have a replacement for the Great Karnak. Okay, for those of you, including my kids, that didn’t grow up with this hilarious Johnny Carson character, I’ve included a youtube below so you can get the drift of the rest of this post. For those of you that remember him, I’ve included the youtube below so you can get all nice and nostalgic and hopefully, be very afraid.
So, here’s my shot at the schtick.
The answer is: the Great Obama.
And the question in the envelope? Who thinks they have all the answers before knowing the facts or even the question?
I just made my post dinner, wine-thirty, rounds of favorite blogs. No Quarter is always high on my list. I did this right after speaking to my dad who lives in Seattle and is a true-red Republican, fox-watching, member of the greatest generation kinda guy. Maybe it was because we were just talking about my evolving attitude towards Fox News, but we were discussing Britt Hume’s coming retirement, media bias, and the election.
My dad insists that Obama has some kind of personality disorder that is causing him to think that he is already elected president.
So, this interview was posted at No Quarter. I started synthesizing all of these discussions into a more coherent framework since this is one of the occupational hazards of being a social scientist.
Does Obama really think it’s just a matter of waiting out a few inconvenient months? Has he become the Great Carnak or is he exhibiting some kind of personality disorder?
Here’s the interview that got me thinking that maybe my Dad wasn’t all that off base.
The Answer is: The Great OBAMA.
And the question in the envelope? Who thinks he’s already elected president AND knows all the answers to the questions that reporters may ask and concerns that generals may have.
Transcript . Barack Obama ABC Interview . July 21, 2008
ABC’s Terry Moran: “And then we sat down with [Barack Obama] to talk about what has become an open disagreement between military commanders here and Obama, over his plan to withdraw all U.S. combat troops from Iraq on a 16-month timetable. Did General Petraeus talk about military concerns about your timetable?”
Barack Obama: “You know, I would characterize the concerns differently. I don’t think that they’re deep concerns about the notion of a pullout per se. There are deep concerns about, from their perspective, a timetable that doesn’t take into account what they anticipate might be some sort of changing conditions. And this is what I mean when I say we play different roles. My job is to think about the national security interests as a whole, and to have to weigh and balance risks, in Afghanistan, in Iraq. Their job is just to get the job done here. And I completely understand that.”
Moran: “But the difference is real. Commanders here want withdrawals to be based on conditions on the ground. Obama emphasizes his timetable, but he insists he would remain flexible. I’m going to try to pin you down on this.”
Obama: “Here let me say this, though, Terry, because, you know, what I will refuse to do, and I think that, you know “
Moran: “How do you know what I’m going to ask?”
Obama: “Well, then if I don’t get it right, then you can ask it again.”
Moran: “All right.”
Obama: “Is to get boxed in into what I consider two false choices, which is either I have a rigid timeline of such and such a date, come hell or high water, we’ve gotten our combat troops out, and I am blind to anything that happens in the intervening six months or 16 months. Or, alternatively, I am completely deferring to whatever the commanders on the ground says, which is what George Bush says he’s doing, in which case I’m not doing my job as commander-in-chief.”
There are two things I jumped on immediately. One is that Obama presumed to know what the Reporter was going to ask. The second is the all-telling “I’m not doing my job as commander-in-chief.”
My first instinct, was to think, this guy really does think he’s already got the presidency in the bag. I thought the seal was over-the-top. I really thought the entourage to Europe and the Middle East was a bit staged. The acceptance speech in the stadium is outrageous! The speech by the Brandenburg gate was trying to channel the Kennedy vibe. Michelle’s even been known to deck herself out like Jackie. But, sheesh, I’m beginning to gather enough evidence that I really think he MUST think he has this in the bag. He’s already president in his mind. It’s a done deal, in his mind. He even thinks he knows what other folks want and are going to ask now. I think that it’s gone beyond just staging Obama to look presidential and Kennedyesque.
The Answer is: The Great Obama
And the Question in the Envelope: Who believes his own hype beyond the point representing sanity and the safety of our country?
UPDATE: I guess even the candidate’s advisors think he’s already president too!
At a morning background briefing, reporters parried with senior advisers on the characterization of Obama’s speech Thursday in Berlin as a campaign rally. The outdoor speech at the Victory Column could draw thousands of people, similar to the size of Obama events in the United States.
“It is not going to be a political speech,” said a senior foreign policy adviser, who spoke to reporters on background. “When the president of the United States goes and gives a speech, it is not a political speech or a political rally.
“But he is not president of the United States,” a reporter reminded the adviser.
“He is going to talk about the issues as an individual … not as a candidate, but as an individual, as a senator,” the adviser added.
SOURCE: http://dyn.politico.com/members/forums/thread.cfm?catid=1&subcatid=2&threadid=1059249
Senator Backtrack Hussein Obama: Doing the Chameleon!
Posted: July 6, 2008 Filed under: No Obama | Tags: Backtrack Obama, No Obama, Obam flip flips, Zelig 3 CommentsEven the MSM (in this case Jennifer Loven of the AP) can’t miss the flip-flops and backtracks that are coming so fast and furious as the DNC anointed one takes the fast back track to the center and beyond. Love raises the specter of the last DNC Presidential candidate. At this rate, I believe the RNC will just have to paste Obama’s head on the Kerry windsurfing ad and it’ll be President McCain. Far from sounding like some kind of new politician that transcends politics-as-usual, Obama is channeling the worst kind of pandering to try to capture independent and moderate republican voters. The problem is that he only has about 54% of the Democratic base at the moment. Judging from the howls of protests from the leftie blogs, he may be losing more of that base even though he’s telling that group they have no place else to go. Perhaps he’s forgetting the Gore/Bush election where Ralph Nader pulled the votes of issue-voting lefties. Nader is in again and there is Cynthia McKinney and the Green Party. She has already won the support of the Black Agenda Report. I’m not sure that Senator Backtrack Obama can count the lefties as part of his firm base of support.
Here’s Loven’s succinct list of Backtrack Obama’s flip flops for the week:
On Iraq, Obama said Thursday that his upcoming trip there might lead him to refine his promise to quickly remove U.S. troops.
He now supports broader authority for the government’s eavesdropping program and legal immunity for telecommunications companies that participated in it, supporting the bill after some protections were added.
A handgun control proponent, he reacted to the Supreme Court overturning the District of Columbia’s gun ban by saying he favors both an individual’s right to own a gun as well as government’s right to regulate ownership.
Obama became the first major-party candidate to reject public financing for the general election after earlier promises to accept it.
He not only embraced but promised to expand Bush’s program to give more anti-poverty grants to religious groups, a split with Democratic orthodoxy.
He objected to the Supreme Court’s decision outlawing the death penalty for child rapists, drawing attention to his support for the death penalty if used only for the ”most egregious” crimes.
She also reports this that the RNC is reading to pounce on him. Suprised? Uhhhhh, nope!
”There appears to be no issue that Barack Obama is not willing to reverse himself on for the sake of political expedience,” said Alex Conant, a spokesman for the national Republican Party.
It might be working. Despite disarray in Republican John McCain’s camp, Bush’s dismal approval ratings and just 17 percent of the public saying the nation is moving in the right direction, recent polls show Obama unable to build a solid lead over his GOP rival.
Look at that last line. George W Bush has a dismal approval rating, the Iraq war is highly unpopular and poll after poll shows how unhappy the American people are with the direction the country is headed. As unpopular as Dubya is, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have managed to place Congress at even lower approval ratings. This is despite two years of ascendency.
We have an unpopular congress and democratic leadership anointing Backtrack Obama and we have yet another example of the DNC putting up a very weak candidate. We’re expected just to jump on that unity pony again and watch the country reject another Dukkakis, Mondale, second term Carter, and Kerry. Have you noticed these are the very folks that are excited about Obama?
I’m reminded of the last letters between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. Their relationship was embittered by Jefferson paying a pundit to tell nasty lies about Adams. Abigail Adams never forgive Jefferson. Adams, after 10 years of no contact between the two, re-opened communications. What was their final correspondence ? Basically, both men shared the fear that party politics would bring the fragile republic down.
Year after year we see a repeat of this pattern. Pander to the base then turn around and pander to the
middle. The DNC has lost election after election with this strategy. Hillary Clinton decided to break this pattern by not taking any positions in the primary that she would have to reverse in the fall. The left is never a group to be pragmatic. McCain’s never been fully accepted by the Republican base but the right never bolts from the party. I doubt you’ll see any of them voting Barr (Liberatarian) in the fall. Obama believes the Evangelical might be up for grabs, however, they tend to be more likely to just sit the fall election out than consider him acceptable. This is not what the Obama campaign must think, however, as Backtrack Obama continues to take positions traditionally not supported by Democrats to try to pick up as many votes in the middle. However, at what cost? He is horrifying one democratic constituency after another.
If you see both candidates as unacceptable due to lack of firm stands on certain issues, what then is your voting criteria? I’m going to extrapolate from the folks around me and say character. Even though McCain is intemperate, his service to the country is long, well-known, and reliably documented. Obama remains an enigma. This is because of his many advisers come from the right wing Chicago school of Business, his pastors and friends come from the radical left, and his base support is from the DNC establishment with its role call of losers (let’s put Ted Kenndy in that pigeon hole along with the others listed above). Also, he tells life story that are as much fiction as Forrest Gump. His speeches these days are so tailored to the audience I feel as though I’m watching Woody Allen’s old movie Zelig. Which costume and persona will Backtrack Obama finally adapt?
Who will corner and define this chameleon as we pull closer to being stuck with Hobson’s choice for a President who faces some really daunting challenges?
Lead up to the Iraq War is no different from the Lead up to Denver UNLESS YOU HELP STOP IT
Posted: July 3, 2008 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: DNC attack on Democracy, Heidi Li, just say no deal, Marc Rubin, No Obama, No Quarter, Obama's attack on Democracy, PUMA, The Denver Group, WMD and Iraq War 2 CommentsInevitability: Finding WPMs in Iraq and Obama as the DNC Nominee
Perhaps the meaning of inevitability should be couched in a post 9-11 definition. Inevitability redefined means “because the Press and the Political Elite make it so.” Inevitable is no longer due to ANY underlying facts. We are no longer in a one person one vote world. It is time to tell the DNC to stop its War on Democracy.
The Denver Group and its founders Heidi Li Feldman and Marc Rubin remind me of the early roots of Move-on and the few voices against the Iraq War I could find when I was trying to find a way to join a movement to prevent that war. There were a few voices in the wilderness speaking truth, but the press and politicos were playing up the Slam Dunk of finding WMD in Iran like the second coming. They even had up to 65% of the population believing that Saddam Hussein was behind the 9/11 attacks. I can remember sitting in a restaurant discussing the inanity of any war in Iraq and being yelled at by many folks from the surrounding tables as being an unpatriotic peacenik. No amount of reason could stop the race towards this unnecessary war. The Press and the Politicos wanted it.
Now, with so many realizing the truth, I can hardly believe we see the same tactics in play to anoint a DNC general election candidate based on lies and back room manipulations hidden from the general public. Not only are they in play, they APPEAR TO BE WORKING! Is the ordinary American really that stupid? We now have some folks working hard to play up the Slam Dunk claim that is Obama as Democratic Party Nominee. Just as then Secretary of State Colin Powell was sent to the United Nations with phony evidence debunked by many within the CIA, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Howard Dean are touting the inevitability of a unified party and an Obama ascendancy by stacking the deck against reality and the truth.
Are you willing to let that happen?
I know Heidi and I’ve read Marc’s blog since its inception. I suggest you check out my links to Tom in Paine or Heidi Li’s Potpourri in the side bar. You can also get a great interview with them at this thread on No Quarter: http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/03/breaking-nq-radio-interview-the-denver-group/ . They are looking to make the DNC accountable for their actions during this primary season.
From their site:
Insuring that Senator Clinton’s name is on the ballot requires sending a message to Howard Dean,the DNC and the country at large that the Democratic Party is playing with fire to even consider subverting democratic principles by removing her name and having anything less than an open honest convention.It also sends the message that the false sense of party unity that’s being promoted by the Democratic Party and willingly repeated by the news media is just that — false.
There are many factors conspiring to try and keep Senator Clinton’s name off the ballot not the least of which is the fear by some that, given the events of the last few weeks, she could actually win.
At a dinner with Clinton donors two weeks ago, Senator Obama was asked if he supported Senator Clintons name on the ballot. His answer was that he wasn’t there to negotiate the convention. We think its fair to say that if Senator Obama has his way her name wont be on the ballot and he will use all his influence with the DNC to accomplish that. A mass media approach is a very public way of pushing back and letting the DNC know there’s another side watching and there will be dire consequences if that happens.
I’m still appalled by the complete lack of truthfulness and democracy that occurred during this primary season that may eventually lead us into a War Against Democracy in the same way we were led to a War Against Iraq under the guise of lies. Take a real look at some of the things that are going on.
There has been a concerted effort to flip every Clinton delegate, pledged or otherwise, to Obama to remove the possibility of Obama being upstaged at the convention. You see, no one is the nominee at the convention until one of the candidates receives the magic number of delegates. That is why Obama is strong-arming anyone that continues to stick with Hillary.

Send in the Greyhound fleet! NY Times Now UNDER THE BUS!!!
Posted: July 3, 2008 Filed under: No Obama | Tags: Bush's Third Term, New York Times Under the Bus, No Obama, Obama flip flops, Obama lies, Obama to the right, Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal Editorial 5 CommentsEXTRA! WALL STREET JOURNAL SAYS:
Bush’s Third Term
July 2, 2008; Page A12
“We’re beginning to understand why Barack Obama keeps protesting so vigorously against the prospect of “George Bush’s third term.” Maybe he’s worried that someone will notice that he’s the candidate who’s running for it.
Most Presidential candidates adapt their message after they win their party nomination, but Mr. Obama isn’t merely “running to the center.” He’s fleeing from many of his primary positions so markedly and so rapidly that he’s embracing a sizable chunk of President Bush’s policy. Who would have thought that a Democrat would rehabilitate the much-maligned Bush agenda?
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Take the surveillance of foreign terrorists. Last October, while running with the Democratic pack, the Illinois Senator vowed to “support a filibuster of any bill that includes retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies” that assisted in such eavesdropping after 9/11. As recently as February, still running as the liberal favorite against Hillary Clinton, he was one of 29 Democrats who voted against allowing a bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee reform of surveillance rules even to come to the floor.
Two weeks ago, however, the House passed a bill that is essentially the same as that Senate version, and Mr. Obama now says he supports it. Apparently legal immunity for the telcos is vital for U.S. national security, just as Mr. Bush has claimed. Apparently, too, the legislation isn’t an attempt by Dick Cheney to gut the Constitution. Perhaps it is dawning on Mr. Obama that, if he does become President, he’ll be responsible for preventing any new terrorist attack. So now he’s happy to throw the New York Times under the bus.
Next up for Mr. Obama’s political blessing will be Mr. Bush’s Iraq policy. Only weeks ago, the Democrat was calling for an immediate and rapid U.S. withdrawal. When General David Petraeus first testified about the surge in September 2007, Mr. Obama was dismissive and skeptical. But with the surge having worked wonders in Iraq, this week Mr. Obama went out of his way to defend General Petraeus against MoveOn.org’s attacks in 2007 that he was “General Betray Us.” Perhaps he had a late epiphany.
Look for Mr. Obama to use his forthcoming visit to Iraq as an excuse to drop those withdrawal plans faster than he can say Jeremiah Wright “was not the person that I met 20 years ago.” The Senator will learn – as John McCain has been saying – that withdrawal would squander the gains from the surge, set back Iraqi political progress, and weaken America’s strategic position against Iran. Our guess is that he’ll spin this switcheroo as some kind of conditional commitment, saying he’ll stay in Iraq as long as Iraqis are making progress on political reconciliation, and so on. As things improve in Iraq, this would be Mr. Bush’s policy too.
Mr. Obama has also made ostentatious leaps toward Mr. Bush on domestic issues. While he once bid for labor support by pledging a unilateral rewrite of Nafta, the Democrat now says he favors free trade as long as it works for “everybody.” His economic aide, Austan Goolsbee, has been liberated from the five-month purdah he endured for telling Canadians that Mr. Obama’s protectionism was merely campaign rhetoric. Now that Mr. Obama is in a general election, he can’t scare the business community too much.
Back in the day, the first-term Senator also voted against the Supreme Court nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito. But last week he agreed with their majority opinion in the Heller gun rights case, and with their dissent against the liberal majority’s ruling to ban the death penalty for rape. Mr. Obama seems to appreciate that getting pegged as a cultural lefty is deadly for national Democrats – at least until November.
This week the great Democratic hope even endorsed spending more money on faith-based charities. Apparently, this core plank of Mr. Bush’s “compassionate conservatism” is not the assault on church-state separation that the ACLU and liberals have long claimed. And yesterday, Mr. Obama’s campaign unveiled an ad asserting his support for welfare reform that “slashed the rolls by 80 percent.” Never mind that Mr. Obama has declared multiple times that he opposed the landmark 1996 welfare reform.
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All of which prompts a couple of thoughts. The first is that Mr. Obama doesn’t seem to think American political sentiment has moved as far left as most of the media claim. Another is that the next President, whether Democrat or Republican, is going to embrace much of Mr. Bush’s foreign and antiterror policy whether he admits it or not. Think Eisenhower endorsing Truman’s Cold War architecture.
Most important is the matter of Mr. Obama’s political character – and how honest he is being about what he truly believes. His voting record in the Senate and in Illinois, as well as his primary positions, would make him the most liberal Presidential candidate since George McGovern in 1972. But he clearly doesn’t want voters to believe that in November. He’s still the Obama Americans don’t know.”
It’s getting surreal out there folks!!! Let’s just disinter Salvador Dali and let him explain it to us!!!
Source: source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121495450490321133.html






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Buyer’s Remorse: Obama positions himself as the Candidate of No place Else to Go
Posted: July 3, 2008 | Author: dakinikat | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Black Agenda Report says NO Obama, Black Commentator says NO OBAMA, No Obama, Obama Flip flop on ABORTION rights, OBAMA flip flop on IRAQ | 3 Comments“The yearlong joke that was the Democratic primary battle is now over. It is official. Barack Obama offers absolutely nothing new except well executed political strategy. The grand political rallies/come to Jesus meetings were nothing more than political theater and viral marketing on an off the charts scale. It is true that thousands of people became involved in politics through the Obama campaign, only to be told now that he represents the same old same old and that they had better accept it and shut up.
The Obama campaign slogan ought to be “Never give a sucker an even break.” It isn’t clear which sight is more painful to watch, the progressives who fell for the hype and are now heart broken or the cynics who knew the game all along and now applaud the campaign’s increasingly rightward shift”
Looks like a quote from one of us old bitter white women right? Nope. It’s from the Black Agenda Report. This great cartoon is from there also.
source: http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=682&Itemid=1
This is the punch line:
“If there were any true political organizing in American politics, the Obama sham would be seen for what it is. Instead corrupt Democratic leaders sell snake oil, and the rank and file go along in confusion or succumb to paralysis out of fear of electing John McCain. Because progressives never fought the good fight amongst themselves, they still don’t know what their agenda ought to be, or worse yet, they don’t even know they should have one. Falling for high flown rhetoric became a substitute for hard headed political decision making.
So we now have the Al Gore and John Kerry campaigns all over again, albeit with more charisma and a better campaign. The fact that Obama has a better campaign means that he is more likely to win. The fact that he is just another bought off Democrat with a constituency who refuse to make demands means that his term will be like that of the last Democrat. In January 2009 we will have an even slicker Willie in the White House.”
Let me point you to further criticism of Obama. This coming from the Black Commentator.
“Now, there is a man who would be the colored Emperor of the de facto U.S. Empire; Barack Obama, the most singularly dangerous threat to Black America, and the planet as a whole. Masquerading as a man of peace when in fact he is a corporate / military representative of war. The same man who has thrown Reverend Jeremiah Wright, his entire church, and the Palestinian peoples under the crushing wheels of the proverbial bus of political expediency and opportunism. No critically thinking person of good will, be they Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, or White should be surprised when this man sets out to sacrifice us on his alter of political opportunism and hypocrisy.
Nevertheless, this Wall Street-backed, pro-apartheid Zionist Barack Obama could not do successfully carry out his aims without the complicity of neo fascist 21st Century white so-called liberals / progressives such as media personality Amy Goodman and company, who have for over a year now have been among his active cheer leaders. These are people, who like certain French collaborators with the Nazis in occupied Paris of the 1940s, think they can eat their cake and have it too. These are people who always stop short of clearly and concisely calling for what is really needed in the U.S.; and that is total and complete systemic change: a people’s revolution. These are people who clack on and on about certain select injustices in the U.S. and elsewhere while reveling in their own color and class privilege and simultaneously being undeservedly revered by some as politically “progressive figures.”
source: http://www.blackcommentator.com/282/282_kir_if_you_support_obama.html
Today, Obama threw NARAL and the promise of an immediate pull-out from Iraq under the bus while campaigning in North Dakota. Here’s a discussion of the Pro Choice Flip flop from Talk Left:
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/7/3/20917/25581
I was just watching AC 360 and the MSM are all over the backpedal on Iraq.
However, I’ll return to the Black Commentator for their perspective.
“U.S. Senator Barack Obama has planted his feet deeply
inside the Iraq war-prolongation camp of the Democratic Party,
the great swamp that, if not drained, will swallow up any hope
of victory over the GOP in next year’s congressional elections.
In a masterpiece of double-speak
before the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations, November
22, the Black Illinois lawmaker managed to out-mush-mouth Sen.
John Kerry – a prodigious feat, indeed.”
source: http://www.blackcommentator.com/161/161_cover_obama_iraq.html
Notice the date? They’ve been cognizant that Obama takes expediency to an entirely new level. There are a large number of African Americans who know they’ve been under the Obama bus for some time.
How about No Quarter’s Larry Johnson’s take on the Iraq flip flop:
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/03/obama-the-fast-change-bamboozler/#more-3420
Now, will the rest of you wake up before the Denver Convention and prevent the error of making him the nominee?
Can you say buyer’s remorse?
As we say down here in Lousiana … Somebody got some splaining to do!
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